Tough Election? The Future Is Brighter Than You Can Imagine

Benedictine College: Media and Culture ^ | Nov 4, 2026 | Tom Hoopes

[posterchild]

... Looking at the political facts on the ground looks hopeless and exhausting. If you are feeling despondent at witnessing blow after blow to pro-life candidates and causes, it might be good to remember that politics isn’t everything.

Don’t get me wrong — politics is extremely important. Catholics need to be deeply involved in politics, fighting for the justice. But Catholics can’t make the fundamental error those Emmaus disciples made. They hoped Jesus would come and solve this world’s problems here and now.

Instead, they got the cross.

Christ didn’t become the political ruler of Israel. Instead, he invited his disciples to go back to Jerusalem on the eve of its political destruction, and build the Church. Christ didn’t crush the Roman Empire like a warrior messiah. Instead, he invited his disciples to transform it from within — through loving service and martyrdom.

In the same way, anyone who thinks God will work in large part through the victories of one political party or the other for the ultimate good is destined to be disappointed.

At the dedication of Benedictine College’s Independence Hall Library (pictured above), President Stephen Minnis said “A few decades after our founding, the American bishops met in Baltimore—including our very own Bishop Fink of St. Benedict’s Abbey — and the bishops exhorted Catholic families to send into public life ‘not partisans, but patriots.’” ...

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[bankwalker]

Catholics need to be deeply involved in politics

How did they happen to vote? Just curious ...

[Steely Tom]

Tough Election? The Future Is Brighter Than You Can Imagine

I gotta wear shades.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Things are just great, and they’re only getting better.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Sadly, my fellow Catholics made the Jews look like John Birchers in our misguided leftism.

[bray]

The Church has become pretty much pro Baby Killing.

[ealgeone]

Funny you should ask

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN White Evangelical/Born-again 18% 82% White Protestants 33% 67% Hispanic Protestants 44% 56% Black Protestants 90% 10% Catholics (Overall) 50% 49% White Catholics 44% 56% Hispanic Catholics 65% 35% Jewish 68% 32% Muslim 86% 14% Religiously Unaffiliated 78% 20% Other Faiths 66% 34%

[ealgeone]

Funny you should ask

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN

White Evangelical/Born-again 18% 82%

White Protestants 33% 67%

Hispanic Protestants 44% 56%

Black Protestants 90% 10%

Catholics (Overall) 50% 49%

White Catholics 44% 56%

Hispanic Catholics 65% 35%

Jewish 68% 32%

Muslim 86% 14%

Religiously Unaffiliated 78% 20%

Other Faiths 66% 34%

[ealgeone]

Source: Sources: NBC exit-poll reporting summarized by Religion News Service and EWTN News, November 4–6, 2026. Percentages are rounded.

[ealgeone]

I should also note this is countrywide results. Chatgpt didn't have this at the state level.

I asked it if the RCC vote came in as the White Evangelicals did what would the estimated impact be?

Quite possible we hold both houses of congress.

[metmom]

I can count on none hand the number of Catholics I know that do not vote democrat.

And that’s growing up in a Catholic family in highly Catholic Western NY.